Maars

Connected Sites: 4

A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, which is an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. (wiki)

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Connected Sites

Wet Tropics of Queensland
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Australia
Inscribed: 1988
3.47
175
8
Lake Euramoo
Volcanoes of Kamchatka
Volcanoes of Kamchatka
Russia
Inscribed: 1996
4.31
17
2
Kinenin Lake
Messel Pit
Messel Pit
Germany
Inscribed: 1995
2.22
211
9
West Eifel Volcanic Field
El Pinacate
El Pinacate
Mexico
Inscribed: 2013
3.08
21
5
"The Most Visually Striking Feature Is The Concentration Of A Total Of 10 Enormous, Deep And Almost Perfectly Circular Maar (Steam Blast) Craters, Believed To Originate From A Combination Of Eruptions And Collapses." (Ouv)